Century. The word century is commonly miscapitalized
and erroneously hyphenated in compound words. Centuries should appear in
lower case unless they are parts of titles of works,
captions, or being emphasized for some other reason It happened in the thirteenth century They should not be hyphenated when they function as
nouns, as in the example just given.
When centuries are used asadjectives, they are hyphenated I read an eighteenth-century novel set in fourteenth-century Spain When centuries are capitalized,
as either nouns or adjectives, both elements of the compound are
upper case: Variations in Nineteenth-Century Grammar See also
capitalization, hyphen, and
emphasis.Cf. This
abbreviation for compare or see should be conned to footnotes or endnotes and should not appear in the main text.
Even in notes, it is better to use the English word rather than the
Latin abbreviation.
Choose, chose, chosen. An
irregular verb in its main,
past tense, and past
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